If there is one aspect of computing I am most paranoid about it has to be data loss. Years worth of music, hundreds of pounds worth of iTunes purchases and a lifetime full of family photos these are the things that simply can’t be replaced. At this point you are probably shouting “Time Machine” in [...]
For many years I was an avid fan of Microsoft Money, you could say I was a control freak entering every single transaction no matter how small to gain an accurate view of our home finances. On moving to Mac I really struggled to find a home finance application that meets my needs and last [...]
Previously I discussed how difficult it was to select between the great Instapaper and the equally brilliant ReaditLater. Bamboo Apps offer a solution to this dilemma with a really nice little bookmarking application called “Quiet Read”. Both Instapaper and Readitlater offer “bookmarklets” for managing your reading list. Bookmarlets work by adding bookmarks to your browser [...]
Twenty years ago the word ‘wireless’ meant something completely different to what it does now. Rather than meaning wireless internet the traditional term wireless was the means of listening to radio stations. Twenty years on and you can use wireless to listen to the radio via the internet. Radium by Catpig Studios offers a complete [...]
Deep down I have never really liked the idea of cloud computing. The thought that all my tasks, emails, contacts, events and notes would sit on a public area only protected by a username and password just didn’t sit right. Despite the reality that no one is actually interested in my latest note or calendar event [...]
I have always been mesmerised by video clips that take one object or person and transforms them into a completely different shape. Morphing as it is called is made exceptionally easy with Creaceed’s Morph Age software. Morph Age is an application for morphing/warping images and movies on Mac OS X, such as faces, and then [...]
“My office is home to a MacBook Pro 2.8 GHz connected to a 30″ display, both cherished prices from the 2009 Apple Design Award competition, where Boinx Software received recognition for BoinxTV as a Mac OS X showcase. The iPhone is mostly used for communicating on the road while my iPad is currently more a [...]
One of the biggest issue facing business and the public sector is ensuring data is kept secure. Stories of data left on trains, stolen from cars demonstrates just how fragile our personal information actually is. I have been investigating ways of keeping my data secure between computers, I had been using Bitclamp but it appears [...]
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